The occupation war and resistance in iraq i thought this book lived up to all the reviews i had read about it in various magazines for anyone who is interested in facts not fiction about the us occupation of iraq this book will more than suffice. Some impressions of iraq patrick cockburn long time independent correspondent in the middle east wrote this account of the occupation of iraq and the resistance to that occupation in 2006 cockburn writes from the point of view of his own experiences and observations beginning in the north of the country on the eve of invasion to his time in baghdad with increasingly limited and dangerous . The occupation war and resistance in iraq i thought this book lived up to all the reviews i had read about it in various magazines for anyone who is interested in facts not fiction about the us occupation of iraq this book will more than suffice. The occupation war and resistance in iraq by journalist patrick cockburn is a short overview of the mistakes the us made during its time in iraq from its lack of knowledge of the country before it invaded to the constant political blunders it made afterward the book starts in the 1990s to give some background to what iraq was like before the war started and then mostly focuses upon the . The occupation war and resistance in iraq is a personal record arising out of cockburns frequent visits as a journalist to iraq before and during the war but it takes in many other experiences